by aera | Oct 13, 2009 | Lost City Project
Urban planning 19th century travelers to Cairo often complained about the winding, confused arrangement of streets in the old city. Egypt’s pasha, Ismail (r. 1863-1879), attempted to redesign Cairo in the fashion of European cities, with broad straight boulevards. You...
by aera | Oct 13, 2009 | Featured Content, Lost City Project, News
Heit el-Ghurab There is a massive, ancient stone wall that stands a few hundreds yards south of the Sphinx. But because it lay partially buried and overshadowed by the pyramids and Sphinx, tourists have hardly noticed it. Known locally as the Wall of the Crow (Heit...
by aera | Oct 13, 2009 | Lost City Project
The thick, limestone foundation wall of a large, ancient building occupies the southeastern corner the Lost City site at Giza. This is certainly a royal complex. It is 45 meters (147 feet) wide, extends more than 35 meters (115 feet) north to south, and disappears...
by aera | Oct 13, 2009 | Lost City Project
Who slept here? The largest structures at the Giza Plateau Mapping Project dig site are four great blocks of galleries (the Gallery Complex). These galleries occupy an area of 12,375 square meters (40,600 square feet) at the center of our exposure of the Lost City....
by aera | Oct 13, 2009 | Featured Content, Lost City Project, News
How did the ancient Egyptians feed thousands of workers at Giza? We know from ancient texts that a staple diet of bread and beer were disbursed as rations in royal labor projects. What kind of bread did the pyramid builders eat? In September and October 1993, The...
by aera | Oct 13, 2009 | Lost City Project
How old is the Lost City? How do we know that the settlement located at the foot of the Giza Plateau belongs to the same period of time as when the Egyptians were building Khufu’s Great Pyramid and the other pyramids? Two kinds of evidence tell us that we are...
